Welcome to South Carolina
Genealogy Trails
History Group

 

Genealogy Trails is a group of dedicated volunteer genealogist trancribing FREE genealogy data. Our goal with "Genealogy Trails" is to bring Free, Informative, Genealogical and Historical information throughout each State.

WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU.  All data we come across will be added to this website, so please keep checking back.

We very much want to make you part of the Website - We are looking for Biographies, Obituaries, Newspaper Stories, History and Family stories. Things that you won't find on any other website. Along the way we will acquire Births, Deaths, Marriages, Cemetery Listings and everything in between - things that will be of importance to the South Carolina Researcher.  We want to welcome you and hope you will join us as we travel the Trails of our Ancestors through this wonderful state.

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 © 2008-2012 with all rights reserved to the original submitter
Main page designed and maintained by Dena Whitesell

Columbia is the capital.
At the left is the State Capital Building


We need State and County Co-Ordinators
Its fun, informative, challenging and its a great group of people to work with.
If interested - View our Volunteer Information Page and contact me

If you have data you'd like to contribute to any of the South Carolina counties, e-mail me.

  You can send your obituaries here (add your email address & name to the submission)
and
Tombstone transcriptions here (add your email address & name to the submission)

South Carolina State Data Updates

Schools:
Laurensville College, Presbyterian College 1901
SC Military Academy, 1849-1865
Military:
Applications for Admission of Female  Relatives of Veterans 1925 - 1955
Applications for Admission of Veterans 1909 - 1939
Land:
Grants for 1737 & 1738
Plats of Forfeited Estates 1782-1785
Warrants for lands, 1672-1679
Mortgages, 1786-1815
Misc:
Practice Law - Index to practing Lawyer's

Certificate of Registraton - Widow/Divorced Woman Who Acquired American Citizenship by Marriage
DAR Lineage
Marriages Notices from ass't. news sources
List of Lawyers 1851
1854 Southern Business Directory
Negro Law - 1848
Biographies:
Several new bio's added...too many to list here.
Botanist Biography

State Flower - Yellow Jessamine

**** South Carolina's History *****

South Carolina was named to honor King Charles I (Carolus is Latin for Charles).

Following exploration of the coast in 1521 by Francisco de Gordillo, the Spanish tried unsuccessfully to establish a colony near present-day Georgetown in 1526, and the French also failed to colonize Parris Island near Fort Royal in 1562. The first English settlement was made in 1670 at Albemarle Point on the Ashley River, but poor conditions drove the settlers to the site of Charleston (originally called Charles Town).

South Carolina was based on a plantation culture with an aristocratic, wealthy society that was dependent on black slave labor. One of the original 13 colonies, South Carolina was first formed in 1729 when the Carolina colony was divided in two to form North and South Carolina. The attack on Fort Sumter in the Charleston harbor launched the Civil War. After the war, the structure of the state changed.

It was admitted to the Union on May 23, 1788 and became the 8th state.

**** State Symbols *****

  • Mottoes: Animis opibusque parati (Prepared in mind and resources) and Dum spiro spero (While I breathe, I hope)
  • Flower: Carolina yellow jessamine (1924)
  • Tree: Palmetto tree (1939)
  • Bird: Carolina wren (1948)
  • Song: “Carolina” (1911)
  • Nickname: Palmetto State

If you have comments or questions about this site or our project, contact SC Trails State Cordinator Here

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Dena Whitesell - State Coordinator 2008-2012

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